Tony Wight Gallery
845 West Washington Boulevard
312.492.7261
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Jason Salavon, Still Life (Vanitas), 2009
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Mar 13, 2010 – Apr 10, 2010
Tuesdays–Saturdays
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“Jason Salovan uses custom software of his own design to create works that reformat data from mass culture into digital patterns and underlying structures, showcasing technology more than authorial intent. Far from mundane, the work provocatively questions and, at times, uncovers the underlying arrangements of social life; famous past pieces have included a blurry amalgam of 26 superimposed, pornographic photographs of fellatio and a chronological montage of every frame from Hollywood blockbusters reduced to its primary color. His current show at Tony Wight contains and expands on these approaches, with several prints visually averaging the work of specific artists and general art movements, computer-generated still-life subjects, and the artists' own internet search history.”
Monica Westin, Flavorpill
Artist Bio:
Using software processes of his own design, Jason Salavon generates and reconfigures masses of communal material to present new perspectives on the familiar. Though formally varied, his projects frequently manipulate the roles of individual elements arranged in diverse visual populations. This often unearths unexpected pattern as the relationship between the part and the whole, the individual and the group, is explored. Reflecting a natural attraction to popular culture and the day-to-day, his work regularly incorporates the use of common references and source material. The final compositions are exhibited as art objects, such as photographic prints and video installations, while others exist in a real-time software context.
